Stories about: Mellon

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    Google kills more services 21/01/2012 11:24:11

    Google is continuing to weed out its services and on Friday announced it will shut down Picnik, Google Message Continuity and Needlebase and make changes to some other services.
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    Advertisers can't be trusted to self-regulate on data collection, says EFF 16/11/2011 01:53:18

    The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) doesn't think that the digital advertising industry can efficiently regulate itself and has issued a statement saying that the self-regulatory principles for multisite data recently published by the Digital Advertising Alliance will suffer from a lack of enforcement.
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    10 questions for Fonality CFO Dan Rosenthal 08/11/2011 04:49:47

    Name: Dan Rosenthal
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    Study: User tools to limit ad tracking are clunky 02/11/2011 12:17:14

    People who want to limit the behavioral advertising and tracking they are subjected to on the Web aren't well served by some popular privacy tools, according to a Carnegie Mellon University study.
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    Researchers defeat CAPTCHA on popular websites 02/11/2011 02:47:18

    Researchers from Stanford University have developed an automated tool that is capable of deciphering text-based anti-spam tests used by many popular websites with a significant degree of accuracy.
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    Android's big security flaw, and why only Google can fix it 06/10/2011 21:06:00

    In August 2010, hackers bent on jailbreaking Android smartphones found a vulnerability in the way the Android debugger handled an overwhelming number of processes. The code designed to exploit the flaw, dubbed RageAgainstTheCage, allowed users to reflash their smartphone and install custom firmware.
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    Facial recognition: Facebook photo matching just the start 22/09/2011 11:20:00

    The Internet was in an uproar earlier this year following Facebook's launch of facial recognition software for its photo services, enabling users to identify their friends in photos automatically--and without their permission. Though critics described that move as creepy, the controversial technology may now be on the verge of widespread use.
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    5 more tech breakthroughs in access, power, control 21/09/2011 03:05:00

    This is the second half of a two-part series on technology breakthroughs that have the potential to change computing. Last week, we looked at five chip-level innovations that will make electronic devices faster, more powerful, more flexible and less expensive to manufacture. This week, we explore advances in how we access the Net, how we power our devices and how we interact with them.
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    Kenneth van Wyk: Security failures could erode public trust in the Internet 21/09/2011 00:33:00

    There's big trouble in the world of information security, and yet it seems that only a handful of us techies have noticed. What's the problem, you ask? Well, there are actually several problems, but they're all related to one very important issue: public trust. Let's take a look.
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    With SSL, who can you really trust? 19/08/2011 06:27:00

    SSL, the encryption scheme that protects virtually all secure online transaction, requires that users rely on trusted third parties, but what if they can't be trusted?
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    Computer scientist predicts your next Facebook friends 11/08/2011 08:09:00

    Half of the friends you will add on Facebook in the future can be predicted, said Stanford University's Jure Leskovec. He has been elected as one of this year's recipients of the Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowships.
 
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